Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Religion, Socrates, and the Platonic Socrates
2. Scrutinizing Character, Scrutinizing Moral Propositions
3. The Discovery of Separate Form
4. Forms and Erotic Passion
5. Ethics, Psychology, and Metaphysics in the Phaedo
6. The Republic: The Finished Theory of Forms?
7. Reconstructions: From Parmenides to Philebus
8. Gods, God, and Goodness
9. Ethics and Metaphysics: Then and Now
Appendix A: Republic Book Five: Some Background to Eugenic Theory
Appendix B: Literature and Platonic Transcendentalism
Selected Bibliography
Index